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Coastline Market helps fishers and harvesters pre-sell their products before landing. By eliminating up to six middlemen from the supply chain, consumers get the freshest product at less than wholesale cost.
The Booch Organic Kombucha microbrewery never cuts corners, never forcing carbonation into their brew, never pasteurizing, using all organic and wild crafted ingredients, and water filtered to the best standards.
Rockwell Razors designs and manufactures disruptive men’s shaving technology, including razors that are customizable and adjustable to any and every man.
Western
brings yogurt enterprise to London
September 9, 2019
Driving
Change
September 5, 2019
Western
helps fine tune music lessons biz
September 4, 2019
Entrepreneur
builds bridge for women in a heavily male industry
September 4, 2019
From
Bootstraps to Fortune and Back Again
November 19, 2019
A
Conversation with High Growth Entrepreneurs
November 20, 2019
Fireside
Chat w/ Bridgit Co-Founders Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake
November 20, 2019
Proteus
Innovation Competition Launch
November 20, 2019
Ben Varadi, HBA'94
Anton Robie, HBA'94
Ronnen Harary, HBA'94
Janet Bannister, HBA'92
Recognized globally as a premiere resource for entrepreneurship research and education, the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship serves new business ventures from start-up to succession. Housed within the renowned Ivey Business School, the Institute provides entrepreneurs with the tools, resources and discipline to thrive in a competitive world.
Propel is part of the Campus-Linked Accelerator (CLA) program, an initiative of the Ontario Government and administered through the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). Propel is partnered locally with LEAP Junction at Fanshawe College. The centre provides co-working space, mentorship, seed funding, events and acts as an advocate for local startups in the community.
Launched in January 2017, the Western Accelerator provides students, faculty and recent alumni with an intense, rapid and immersive education in entrepreneurship.
Its goal is to accelerate the lifecycle of high-potential ventures and compress a year’s worth of learning into a few months.
Born out of a partnership between Western University, Robarts Research Institute and Lawson Health Research Institute (collectively known as the "Partners"), WORLDiscoveries® draws upon a mix of industry connections, sector-specific market knowledge and business development expertise, to help Researchers and local inventors commercialize their discoveries through licensing and new company start-ups.
At their core, Innovation Ambassadors are about sharing – sharing of ideas, of guidance, of understanding, of expertise, of a particular insight into entrepreneurship unique to Western.
Our Innovation Ambassadors are self-identified researchers from across campus who have experience and expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization or knowledge mobilization. They are charged with a mission to connect great ideas from their areas into the ecosystem. Innovation Ambassadors are an essential component of the Western Entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through their work in faculties and departments across campus, they are dedicated to developing and supporting an innovative mindset at Western.
Matthew Anderson
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology
Tyler Beveridge
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Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Michael Buzzelli
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Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Science
Subrata Chakrabarti
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Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, LHSC/SJHC
Blaine Alexander Chronik
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Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Norma Coates
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Ian Cunningham
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Professor
Medical Biophysics
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Regna Darnell
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Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Research Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Maria Drangova
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Scientist
Robarts Research Institute
Professor
Department of Medical Biophysics
Qingping Feng
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Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology, and Medicine
Richard & Jean Ivey Chair in Molecular Toxicology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Aaron Fenster
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Professor
Medical Biophysics
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Cheryl Forchuk
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Distinguished University Professor
Nursing and Psychiatry
Western University
Doug Fraser
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Professor and Clinician Scientist
Pediatric Critical Care/Trauma Medicine
George Gadanidis
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Professor
Canada Research Chair
Faculty of Education
Elizabeth Gillies
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Professor
Chemistry, Chemical, and Biochemical Engineering
Jason Gilliland
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Professor
Department of Geography, Department of Paediatrics, School of Health Studies, Department of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Vojislava Grbic
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Professor
Department of Biology
Western University
Miodrag Grbic
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Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Western University
Yiannis Iordanous
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology and Pediatrics
Mandar Jog
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Professor, Neurology
Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering
Director, London Movement Disorders Centre
Associate Scientific Director, Lawson Health Research Institute
Les Kalman
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Assistant Professor
Restorative Dentistry
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
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Mike Katchabaw
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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Jim Koropatnick
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Professor, Department of Oncology
Assistant Director, Lawson Health Research Institute
Oncology Scientist (LRCP and LHSC)
Hugo I. de Lasa
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Professor
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Ting Lee
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Professor
Medical Imaging in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Shawn Li
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Professor
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Oncology
Tony Lin
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Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology
Leslie Linton
Adjunct Assistant Research Professor
Don Wright Faculty of Music
Dominic Lim
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Assistant Professor
Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship
Ivey Business School
Len Luyt, Ph.D
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Associate Professor
Chemistry
Manosij ‘Mano’ Majumdar
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Lecturer
Ivey Business School
Ruth E. Martin
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Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Faculty of Health Sciences
M. Hesham El Naggar
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Professor and Research Director
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carole Orchard
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Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Gordon "Oz" Osinski
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NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration
Director, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration
Adam Power
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Associate Professor and Program Director Western University Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Co-founder and CTO Front Line Medical Technologies Inc.
Susan Scollie
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Associate Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abdallah Shami
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Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Kamran Siddiqui
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Professor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Walter Siqueira
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Associate Professor
Schulich Dentistry and Department of Biochemistry
Juan Luis Suarez
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Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Department of Computer Science
Matthew Teeter
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Assistant Professor, Surgery and Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
William J. Turkel
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Professor, Department of History
Eva Turley
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Professor, Depts. Oncology, Biochemistry and Surgery
David Walton
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Associate Professor
School of Physical Therapy
Xianbin Wang
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Professor
Canada Research Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chunbao (Charles) Xu, P.Eng., FCIC, FCAE
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Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineerin
Jun Yang
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Professor
Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program
Western’s Graduate Student Innovation Scholars apply discipline-specific knowledge and develop expertise in entrepreneurship, commercialization and knowledge transfer with hands-on training. Apply your knowledge today!
Eric Morse
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Ron and Nancy Clark Chair in Entrepreneurship
Special Advisory to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship
Deniz Edwards
Director of PROPEL
Lisa Cechetto
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Executive Director
WORLDiscoveries
Burns Cheadle
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Director, Science Professionalism & Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Science
Darren Meister
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John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation
Western Engineering, Ivey
Business School
Kelly Cole
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Vice-President
External Relations
Jason Winders
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Director of Editorial Services
Communications and Public Affairs
Dwayne Martins
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Chief Operating Officer
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
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Eric Morse is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Executive Director of the Morrissette
Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Ivey Business School. He served as Associate Dean
(Programs) for a six-year term, which ended in 2014. Prior to that, Morse was the Inaugural
Director of the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, a post he returned to July 2015. He
is the founder of and the Academic Director for Ivey and KPMG Enterprise’s
QuantumShiftTM Program for Exceptional Entrepreneur.
Lisa Cechetto is the new Executive Director of WORLDiscoveries. With more than 10 years of
patent and business development-related experience, Cechetto has worked in both industry and
academia. Her most recent appointment was Director of Business Development and Intellectual
Property at Institute Pasteur Korea. In this role, she was responsible for the commercialization
of the institute’s research inputs while balancing the interests of key stakeholders including
government, faculty and third parties.
Ian Haase is the Director of Entrepreneurship and manages Propel, the on-campus business
accelerator and co-working space. Prior to his Western, Haase spent four years working at the
Regional Innovation Centre (RIC) TechAlliance, assisting numerous early stage technology
companies while managing the day-to-day operations of the Startup Services team. Throughout his
career, he has personally assisted more than 350 startup companies, and was the founder and CEO
of Spatial Solutions, a software company based in Montreal.
Juan Luis Suarez holds a joint appointment in the departments of Modern Languages and
Literature and Computer Sciences. An internationally recognized scholar, Suarez is the Director
of the CulturePlex Laboratory, which explores how culture affects the spread of ideas and
changes the ways people think and behave. He is a creative, multidisciplinary collaborator who
has established extensive and wide-ranging, international connections. He is also an
entrepreneur, having developed software tools for creative industries, and was co-founder of
Milao Language, a language learning start-up.
Burns Cheadle is Director, Science Professionalism & Entrepreneurship for the Faculty of
Science. After receiving his PhD from Western in 1986, Cheadle worked in the upstream oil and
gas industry, achieving successes in technical, leadership and entrepreneurial roles. In 2009,
he led the development of the petroleum component of Resource Geoscience Western. In his role,
Burns creates and coordinates experiential and reflective learning initiatives aimed at
developing professional competencies — including entrepreneurship and innovation — in
undergraduate and graduate students in the Faculty of Science.
Darren Meister is the John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation and
an Associate Professor of General Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at the Ivey
Business School and the former Faculty Director of the HBA and MSc Programs. He is
cross-appointed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Engineering.
His interests focus on design thinking, technology-based entrepreneurship and the role of
technology in enhancing organizational effectiveness, specifically as it concerns innovation
processes. His research work is conducted within companies in close cooperation with
practitioners.
Kelly Cole is Vice-President (External), working directly with the Campaign Executive
Committee, senior leadership and External Relations team to lead the university’s Be
Extraordinary campaign. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Advancement for the Ivey
Business School. She has 23 years of development experience, including stints with The
Fundraising Network and West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation in Toronto.
Jason Winders is Director (Editorial Services), where he helps writers and editors across
campus tell the university’s story to a variety of audiences across numerous platforms. Prior to
joining Western in 2010, Winders was the Executive Director of the Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald.
He has spent 25 years in journalism, including reporting and editing roles in Illinois, Alabama,
North Carolina and Georgia.
Dwayne Martins, Chief Operating Officer at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,
has extensive experience working in an academic health-care environment. He has developed close
collaborations with multiple hospitals, communities and various levels of government, including
the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges
and Universities. Martins has established many formal business agreements with industry
partners.
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